Reply #10: For the record, I chose #2 -- Cautiously Optimistic [View All]

IMO the problem is much deeper than Bush. He and the GOP dominance is merely a symptom. The current mess is the visible boil that hs erupted on the body politic that had been festering and growing below the skin for many years.

IMO the pendulum started swinging in the wrong direction around 1975. Since 2000 has both reached the worst point, but also finally started swinging back in a better direction.

There's a long way to go, but I think people are finally waking up to the excesses and the falase values and are rejecting them in larger and larger numbers. That can bring positive changes -- IF our side plays its cards right.

I'm cautiously optimistic that this will result in a revival of the more positive aspects of the reforms of the early and mid 20th Century, which were themselves a reaction to the excesses of the Gilded Age of Robber Barons.